Bison are the kings of YNP. They are scary and never moved out of our way once when we encountered them on trails, which was practically multiple times a day. The brown bears fuckin ran 85% of the time.
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There is a reason I moved 700 miles from my family in Los Angeles to Humbolt county in 1978 and Last year we shipped my Mother in Law off to the middle son in New Mexico from near us in the East Bay. I miss her not.
your bears are broken
Montana: grizzly bear killed woman in ‘predatory attack’, officials say
Bear dragged Leah Davis Lokan, 65, out of her tent and killed her near Ovando last summer
www.theguardian.com
If it is just frozen [and you don't see any detritus], then maybe you should run a heating cable down the line while you're "scoping" things out?
Of course if this were my problem, I would ham-fist the heating cable and get it snagged on something inside the pipe, necessitating full jackhammering/replacement of slab and eleventy billionty swear words and North American pesos...
We followed rules that lady didn't follow. In Pelican Valley the YNP wouldn't even let us use tents - we had to stay in their backcountry cabin (@gonefirefightin knows it). Pelican Valley has an 8pm curfew so the bears can roam freely.your bears are broken
Montana: grizzly bear killed woman in ‘predatory attack’, officials say
Bear dragged Leah Davis Lokan, 65, out of her tent and killed her near Ovando last summer
I have basically no fear of wolves.
I feel like I can read Bison fairly well.
Moose? Much, much less so.
Big cats? Terrifying, but usually want nothing to do with you.
Grizzly? FUCKING NOPE
A hungry bear, a sleeping bear, or a bear with cubs. That's the pucker factor right there!
A griz protecting a food cache or an adolescent "exploring" what is and isn't food.
or......a grizzly bear in september
because september
and grizzly bears are horrible irrational killing machines with no purpose in life other than fundraising propaganda and murder.
especially in september
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Yeah being around a bear while he is thinking/focused on food is not going to work out well.
Most bears ran before I could take their pics but here's two that really didn't care about us. One was far off and the other not so much. You guys are preconditioned for potato cam anyway...
That first one with the school bus neck had just beat up some wolves and been snacking on an elk carcass. Can I post a pic of an elk carcass after wolves and bears?
Most bears ran before I could take their pics but here's two that really didn't care about us. One was far off and the other not so much. You guys are preconditioned for potato cam anyway...
That first one with the school bus neck had just beat up some wolves and been snacking on an elk carcass. Can I post a pic of an elk carcass after wolves and bears?
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LoL I was getting paid $18.50 an hour with a per diem.
Man I think you are ready for a move. It's feeling like Baltimore now though. Can you feel the beast calling?
Have you watched the series "Alone"? The first season was nuts, there were a few tap outs because of bears.
I'll have our angry Australian animals any day over bears.
south of the MDL. kill list.
I am addicted to that show!
Yeah I don't want to run into bears in the woods. I haven't watched the show you mention so I can't comment on it. I will say there are basic rules which make things safer if followed.
The trick is not surprising them or getting in their way. I understand that's not always possible so I carry bear spray in bear country.
Hell I had a rattlesnake hanging off my shoe a little over a month ago.
In the woods moose are more common to see and are unpredictable and dangerous.
Deer kill more people than any other wild animal by a large margin. I assume that includes swamp donkeys.
well fed!
@6thElement has a resident bear or three that maintain his garbage cans, IIRC.
They like breaking into garages too, to take care of any garbage you might have forgotten to put out into the dumpster for them. (Neighbourhood house from this past week)
#fullservicebears
That obviously didn't happen because syadasti read something on the colorado fish and wildlife page that said that was impossible
Their ignorance of calling it a "predatory attack" is even more asinine than the ignorance of the food handling of the party. One simple rule of bear country is "possession" if it feels it can have possession of a food source (humans included) it will persist.
#OneLessBear
Meanwhile in Idahoozle, they've killed more than a handful of grizzlies the past two summers.
Sawtell Peak [and its plentiful pine nuts] is THE migratory corridor for bears leaving YNP for the Centennials / Gravvellies...
#ButMyFreedom[to leave food outside my house and/or campsite]
Last year:
Who’s killing the grizzly bears of Fremont County, Idaho?
Grizzly bears are protected under federal law. When three were killed in an Idaho community only a few miles from Yellowstone National Park, it didn’t seem like a coincidence.
www.seattletimes.com
This year:
Idaho Grizzly Bear Mom and Cub Caught and Killed After Seeking Human Food
The two bears were euthanized in the interest of "human safety," after they continuously approached residential areas in Island Park.
www.newsweek.com
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Yup! Lots of idiots with their bird feeders out. Also we have a lot of acorns, small animals and wild berries so they are quite well fed 'round these parts.
If you ever want to take a culinary field trip, there are mountains outside of carson city that are nothing but pinions. I've gone and picked them a few times (and dealt with that god awful sap). The range is called, wait for it, the pinenuts. Depending on how long you want to put up with the sap, you can walk out of there with trashbags with minimal effort.
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